Parent Overview Year 1
Please find below our Parent Overview detailing what our children in Year 1 are learning this week.
Date w/c 19/01/2026
| Curriculum area | We are learning to… |
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Literacy
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This week in Literacy we are continuing to explore our text ‘Love from Australia’ written by Ruth Waters. We will revisit the features of a non-chronological report to help us write our own Australian animal fact files incorporating a heading, subheadings, pictures and captions. |
| Maths |
This week in maths we will be exploring additive structures, including augmentation and reduction. We are going to apply our knowledge of addition and subtraction to a ‘first…, then…, now…’ story context. We will link the story to a numerical representation using our addition, subtraction and equal to symbols where relevant. |
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Phonics and Handwriting |
Phonics: This week we will be learning the sounds ou, ow and ph. Handwriting: Capital letter formation F G H I J K |
| Wider Curriculum |
Science – Big Schools Birdwatch! RSHE – How people and other living things have different needs; about the responsibilities of caring for them. RE – To understand that the Prophet Muhammad matters to Muslims. Music: Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music. PE – to introduce power and speed when sending a ball. Geography – To match animals to continents What adaptations have they made? How are the animals who live in Antarctica different to those from Africa and why etc? |
| Other Information |
We are collecting small boxes for children to make an animal home as part of their Design and Technology project. Any donations greatly received! |
Please note this is a basic overview of the planning for this week. It is impossible to cover in this outline all the learning that takes place during a week! We also believe in listening to your children and responding to their interests and ideas therefore all our planning is flexible. Please note some of the learning will take place across more than one week and during some weeks the learning focus may not cover all curriculum areas.